Sharad Chandran is the Principal Product Manager for the Data Access Group at Oracle. He and his team work on building client-side interfaces and APIs for the Oracle DB in various languages like C/C++, Python, Node.js, etc. Sharad has developed various well-documented features such as pre-compile directives and external library interfaces for Oracle in his earlier capacity as a Senior Programmer. He has published multiple articles that explain how to interface Python frameworks with Oracle Database in his current role. Sharad blogs at http://blogs.oracle.com/opal. His Twitter handle is @SharadChan87.